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tatonic

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  1. The only thing that is concerning with shooting binary and especially if rapid fire, is the possibility of a unoticed squib.

    I've had that happen in a 20"ar w/.22kit while wife unit was at the helm. Luckily I  intervened before she lit off another. Just heard the sound wasn't right.

  2. Who has taken the plunge? I had got pretty good with my bumpstock on a bipod when the ruling came down and I therefore made a point to turn it in to the sherriff.

    Anyway, now to the bfs3, had to grind a rivet head under the pack to get the hammer pin to seat, but after that, install and test was easy. And man does it rock.

  3. On 10/19/2019 at 4:11 PM, jerry52 said:

    Just go for it and the rest will sort itself out. Remember this is fun right?

    No one ever has the perfect gun. They have a lot of less than perfect guns that shoot just fine.

    Now ! Get off the fence and build that sucker and we will want pictures.

    Have fun you could live in LA

    LA is definitely a place you can perfect your craft. You can make the perfect gun, just apply yourself bro.

  4. On 9/30/2019 at 8:52 AM, evlblkwpnz said:

    I'm not sure if it will ever happen, but I have been wanting to move somewhere that I can shoot on site. This would have to happen in an area where ground water isn't an issue and in Open Rural zoning, which would generally be on the Northwest area in this county. I would dig a pond as deep as I could legally get away with and off of that pond I would dig at least one lane or a loop above the clay layer or at least above where I might expect maximum water level to be during the wet season. Dirt from the pond and lane or loop would be used to hide the lanes (blend from existing grade to top of berms) at the same time as creating a more generous berm by the lane being down below existing grade. I would like to not be able to see the lanes at all from the home, but at least be able to fire down one of the lanes from inside of my shop. That's kind of the point, open the door of the shop, wheel a custom shooting bench to the door, and fire from the comfort of shade and AC or go down to the lane and fire. All of my steel targets are on stands and angled down. The target design and having the actual shooting area below surrounding grade should eliminate ricochet. As far as landscaping goes, I would let everything grow wild except immediately around the house and shop, and a line from the shop to the target area. I'm not a fan of creating a lot of landscaping to maintain.

    That's a really cool vision.

    Wishing you the best.

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  5. The ban was bs.

    In order not to become a provable felon I took my slidefire to my Sheriff the day the ruling went into effect. He was quite unaware of said Decree, and had his deputy look up the law.

    We had a good conversation about the chickenshit ruling and he surmised how many might be in the county. He had the deputy to tag with my name and place in His closet, telling me if the law changes I can have it back and thanked me.

    Recently, I heard only 1 other person in my county has turned theirs in, and we are both in the same obscure industry. I do work on military bases because we can pass backgrounds. Which I hear is rare for subs.

    If I really need to bump my Saiga I'll just hold it loosely to my shoulder. Bumpstocks are not worth the hassle right now. But be sure that they are effective on a bipod.

  6. Some have said soaking in wd40 will make powder and primer inert but I think they would have to have open exposure to the oil.

    This 1943 shell proved its quality of build by withstanding years of salt water submersion, so much that the bullet rusted off at the end of brass, and still fired. So I doubt wd would do crap.

    I don't know who 'NES' is, or was, but if it were built with a non corrosive round like du, it could have been fired today. Though, due to brass showing weakness with visable cracks, it might stick in the chamber of say a layti.

    This bullet was most likely from a ww2 ship anti aircraft gun or Corsair cannon.

  7. 9 hours ago, ChileRelleno said:

    Wow, I read this hoping it trolling satire, meant to break the boredom.

    Please tell me I'm correct.

    No troll, 

    I had first thought to try to shoot the primer with a pellet gun but didn't want to risk missing the primer and denting the rim. As a kid, I used to put 12ga rounds into a clay bank and shoot them from across the road. Often I would miss dead center just enough to knock them out of the bank without them going off.

    But back to the topic, I had few choices to make the 20mm safe. With no access to a eod team, I could either bury it or light it off somehow. Burying did not sound good because someone could always dig it up in the future and it would be even more corroded and dangerous. So setting it off was the only was to make it inert.

    By digging a 4ft hole and placing it in laying horizontal and cooking it off, what remained of the bullet would go in the dirt. Everything went as planned, safely. Now I have another empty shell for a key ring. 

    Some of these replies sound like hens cacklin.

    Jeez..

  8. Well it went off well, literally.

    Placed it in a 4ft. hole, inside of a canister type air filter soaked in diesel.

    Lit it up and waited, and waited. Probably took ten minutes to heat up enough but finally went Boom. Blew the brass clean out the hole. The brass shows stress fractures from not being in a chamber but otherwise looks good with what looks like an  unfired primer.

    I took a .50 brass cartridge and it slid into the 20mm neck. Cool.

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